The Lynchburg Symphony Orchestra presents

A Festival of Church Choirs

The LSO’s performance season under conductor/music director Bruce Habitzruther gets under way on the afternoon of Sunday, October 11, when it hosts the combined choirs of area churches for a program of secular and sacred music, including original compositions by Central Virginia’s Dr. Mark Landry.

Seven compositions by Landry will be performed by the orchestra and a combined choir drawn from at least a dozen churches in Central Virginia.

The concert will include the world premiere of “If ever a garden was Gethsemane,” orchestrated by Landry using the text of a poem by Lynchburg-based Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer.

Also on the bill are orchestral performances of Aaron Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man, an orchestral suite from George Bizet’s opera Carmen, the Light Cavalry Overture by von Suppe, and others.

The concert, in E.C. Glass Auditorium, will begin at 3 PM on October 11.